Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana
The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms, paying...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Chapoto, Antony Mabiso, Athur Bonsu, Adwinmea |
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| description | The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms, paying little attention to a special group of smallholder farmers who have transitioned to become medium- and large-scale farmers. This study, therefore, begins to analyze this group of farmers, using qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana. We analyze their characteristics, ingredients of farm-size expansion, and commercialization. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1535722025-11-06T06:25:57Z Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana Chapoto, Antony Mabiso, Athur Bonsu, Adwinmea farm size large-scale farming commercialization agricultural productivity land acquisitions The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms, paying little attention to a special group of smallholder farmers who have transitioned to become medium- and large-scale farmers. This study, therefore, begins to analyze this group of farmers, using qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana. We analyze their characteristics, ingredients of farm-size expansion, and commercialization. 2013 2024-10-01T13:56:42Z 2024-10-01T13:56:42Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153572 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Chapoto, Antony; Mabiso, Athur and Bonsu, Adwinmea. 2013. Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1286. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153572 |
| spellingShingle | farm size large-scale farming commercialization agricultural productivity land acquisitions Chapoto, Antony Mabiso, Athur Bonsu, Adwinmea Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana |
| title | Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana |
| title_full | Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana |
| title_short | Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana |
| title_sort | agricultural commercialization land expansion and homegrown land scale farmers insights from ghana |
| topic | farm size large-scale farming commercialization agricultural productivity land acquisitions |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153572 |
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